Author: Peter Dickinson

Publisher: Puffin Books (1983)

Pages: 238

They were all three born on the same day - Ariadne the daughter of a great lord, Silvester the slave, and Bubba the dancing bear. The Huns raid Byzantium, and the girl is carried off. The boy and the bear (and a dirty old saint) trek north to look for her, and an exciting dangerous adventure is under way.